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...hopes soon to adapt the uranium flechettes for firing from a multi-barreled, rotary Gatling gun that can spew out hundreds of rounds per second. When this weapon system has been perfected, there seems little that will be able to stand in the way of its deadly rain of uranium bullets...
Trash into Water. Burning rubbish in most of today's inefficient incinerators merely puts the dirt into the air (New York municipal incinerators spew out 38.6 tons a day), and most existing land-dump areas are quickly being filled up. Few populous neighborhoods will allow new ones to be established. The crisis that many cities will face in five or ten years has already hit San Francisco. For 44 years, the little town of Brisbane has served as San Francisco's major dump; now it has won a court order that may soon stop at the town line...
...Larry Gage obscurs what should be clear. Gage didn't encourage the rebel to rave and weep and spew out his god-damns. Richard Silberg never wallowed in some old lady's death, never whined about his life. Too much taste was his problem...
...getting "off its pages and into the minds of its readers" a correct image-the warm affection and informal joviality he was capable of sharing. Finally he no longer bears the formerly endured brand by the public of a press lord who, like a ticker-tape machine, can only spew forth hard facts...
...Cleaning. The unwholesome mess that U.S. citizens and corporations spew into that great sewer in the sky costs them dearly-$11 billion a year in property damage alone, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Air pollutants abrade, corrode, tarnish, soil, erode, crack, weaken and discolor materials of all varieties. Steel corrodes from two to four times as fast in urban and indus trial regions as in rural areas, where much less sulphur-bearing coal and oil are burned. The erosion of some stone statuary and buildings is also greatly speeded by high concentrations of sulphur oxides...